Operating in secrecy, the Tanukian Templar adopted a meditative monk-like lifestyle, dedicating themselves to both martial prowess and spiritual enlightenment. Their primary objective is to ensure the safety and prosperity of Amber Krowe's inhabitants while subtly steering their society towards becoming a peaceful technological power within the galaxy.
The Tanukian Templar are a secretive ancient order founded by Tanuki after his release from Jethro’s influence. Their original mandate was simple in wording and vast in scope: protect the fledgling world of Amber Krowe, guide its early people away from extinction, and help shape the planet into a peaceful technological power without allowing the hidden hand of Varuna’s deeper cosmic machinery to become obvious.
To most citizens, the Tanukian Templar never existed as an institution. At most, they survived as rumors: silent guardians, red-robed monks, old watchers beneath the city, figures glimpsed at the edge of disaster and then erased from public record. In reality, they functioned as a hidden scaffolding for Amber Krowe’s development—protectors, advisors, martial specialists, and keepers of knowledge too dangerous to become public.
The Templar are best understood as the organizational extension of Tanuki’s post-host vow. After the Jethro catastrophe, Tanuki’s guilt becomes doctrine: Amber Krowe must not be left exposed, and certain hazards must be contained before they can become history-breaking events. The Tanukian Templar inherit that logic in human-scale form.
They are not an empire, army, or public religion. They operate as a quiet continuity mechanism—preserving Tanuki’s will across generations, protecting sites and bloodlines, steering early Amber Krowen society through fragile developmental thresholds, and ensuring that the planet’s rise does not immediately reveal the deeper secrets buried beneath it.
The Tanukian Templar were established over a millennium ago, during Amber Krowe’s early developmental era—long before the world became the sprawling mega-city and headquarters associated with the Systems Alliance. At that stage, Amber Krowe was still a vulnerable world in need of guardianship, guidance, and protection from forces its inhabitants could not yet understand.
The order drew members from many walks of life. Selection was not purely hereditary, political, or martial; candidates were chosen for unusual ability, discipline, secrecy, and devotion to the order’s long mandate. Their training emphasized both combat and meditation, with the belief that true strength came from inner balance, restraint, and harmony with Varuna’s cosmic energy.
Over time, the Templar became myth. Their influence blended into ordinary life so completely that most of Amber Krowe’s people never recognized the order as real. When they intervened, the result entered public memory as coincidence, local legend, or superstition. Among those who knew the truth, however, the Tanukian Templar remained one of the quiet forces holding the planet together.